I have a dream.....( Martin, with a little Mama Rose on the side...)

We are getting on a bus at 11:00 pm tonight, riding through the night arriving in hopefully sunny DC Sunday Morning, primed , tanned and rested to march on the Capitol! We the people , baby!

It feels like I was there the moment this march was born... so connected we all are these days myfaceyblogpagenet.com. In a post Prop 8 world, and a post New York State GLBT folks being chucked under the bus..... " Hey Kids, lets put on a show! " From the Equality Across America website:

Our One Single Demand:
Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states. We will accept no less and will work until it is achieved. Equality Across America exists to support grassroots organizing in all 435 Congressional Districts to achieve full equality.

We are guaranteed equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Free and equal people do not bargain for or prioritize our rights. Full equality necessarily includes all members of the LGBT community and encompasses, but is not limited to:

The right to work our jobs and go to school free of harassment and discrimination.
The right to safety in our daily lives, and protection from hate crimes.
The right to equitable healthcare, and the right to donate blood.
The right to equitable immigration policies.
The right to marry.
The right to serve in the military openly.
Many bills currently exist to address some of these issues, but we do not support a piecemeal strategy. We seek one federal solution to full equality.

I am not sure what to expect.. I am not sure anyone does. This is pure grass roots. A little nervous... Kyle and crowds, and the rightwing wackos that tell me where and how exactly I am going to hell are never a whole lot of fun. In with anger out with love .

THE BIG NEWS IS: C-Span is going to carry the event live, AND Neil will be on stage at the very beginning representing ECUSA and Integrity at the opening prayer, so Sunday afternoon gather the kiddies and the dogs in front of the flat screen and watch us do what ever it is we are gong to do.

So, I won't be blogging for a couple of days, but will give yall a full re-cap on Monday.

In related news, The President of the United States of America, that Nobel Laureate, Barack H. Obama will be giving a major Gay Rights Speech at an HRC dinner there in D.C. tonight. After a campaign season of love, it has been a little " not tonight honey, I have a headache from the White House"

More from huffpo.

Glory Glory, with the volume turned down...

Cut me, and I bleed red and black... well, mostly red, but there was that time back in '92 but the pills worked.

Such a big SEC weekend. #1 Florida in Baton Rouge to take on those #4

Bayou Bengals with or with out St. Tebow. The #3 Roll Tide Rolls visiting the folks in the Grove who just a couple of weeks ago were top 5. UNDER rated undefeated war-damn-tigers visiting the Hawgs in a game that there is some build up for. Sort of a must win for both teams... more so AU but those hat people need some respect.

Then there is our game. Georgia v Tennessee... Glory Glory v that damned-will-not-get-out-of-your-head-played-non-stop-rocky top. I think they call it " re-building"......

At least I can watch it !!

GO DAWGS!

MORE Friday Fashion!

Our little Pixie is all grown up!

Sure the hair is still silly, but the tiniest Project Runway winner has some mad talent!

Tim Gunn's one time Tonto, the very well married Veronica Webb attending the American Ballet Theatre 2009 Fall gala at Avery Fisher hall, Lincoln Center in New York City wearing a gown from Christian Siriano's spring 2100 Collection.

From the PRG boys, like so much : "Some of Siriano's most striking pieces were made from a fabric print created using an aerial photograph of the Italian coast line — "flipped, modified, repeated and saturated with Volcanic and Oceanic colors," as Siriano described in his notes"

Your Thoughts?

HERESY !!!!!

My eternal soul is in danger over this one, readers, BUT if , for some reason, I was having this Sophie's Choice moment, If I had to pick a family pet... I'd go with the hound. LOOK at that dog! NOT that I don't love UGA.... I'm just a hound guy.

This is such an odd Georgia-Tennessee weekend. I think I read somewhere that this is the first UGA-UT game since 1937 that neither team has been in the top 25... can that be right?

GO DAWGS! A loss tomorrow would just be nasty, with some SEC powerhouses coming up.

The Pride of Athens, Ga !!!

Yes, for years and years, I wore a sash that claimed this .. well, ok, it was Winder, but close. Now my crown and the roses have been handed off to U.S. Representative Dr. Paul Broun! From today's AB-H.

"U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is helping hunters who share his love of big game to import polar bear trophies to the United States.

Broun is co-sponsoring a bill that would allow 41 hunters to bring the heads and hides of polar bears they shot in Canada to the United States despite a ban on importing trophies of the threatened species.
The Athens Republican once was a lobbyist for Safari Club International and is well-known for his collection of big-game trophies, including a lion, a brown bear and a cape buffalo.
The bill would set a dangerous precedent by creating a loophole for hunters who tried to skirt a 2008 ban on importing polar bear trophies, said Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund."

No, this is not from The Onion, its real. He wants to kill MORE Polar Bears. The ice caps are shrinking, the bears are getting more and more rare... and this enlightened man, wants the country to lift the ban??

A little sidebar on Rep. Broun. He like most members of the House held his little dog and pony show of Health Care Town Meetings all over his district BUT, held out until the VERY last minutes to hold one in the bright blue spot that Athens is .He tried his best NOT to hold one. This man is a DISGRACE to Georgia.

War and Peace

Busy morning in the world!

Bombing the moon was not much of a bomb shell but President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, now that was a shocker.

According to everyone that watched the bombing of the moon was a non event, I slept through it, Neil was up at the crack of ridiculous to watch, then came and woke me with the real explosion. Our President won the Peace Prize. I could feel the right wing going off from the safety of my bed, tucked away in the far far corner that is Mendon.

They cheer when the United States loses the Olympics and sharpen their fangs with glee at THEIR President winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Again, why am I surprised at this.

Not all, but a vast majority of those right wingers are great big fans of a man that they call the Prince of Peace, and from that one could surmise that these folks would see PEACE as a virtue.. something to be lauded and worked for. Guess not.

I am overjoyed that a man that I greatly admire won this award. He did not campaign for this, and I'm sure as his head hit the pillow last night he was not thinking about it, but the esteemed Nobel crowd saw fit to give it to OUR President. Yeah America! Not so in the great Red/Blue divide that we are in 2009...

This is my newest hero Rep. Alan Grayson, you know , the guy who said the GOP's health plan was for you to "not get sick", and if you did, to "die fast".

The Democratic National Committee is coming out swinging on this one, GOOD FOR THEM.
" The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists -- the Taliban and Hamas this morning -- in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize," wrote DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse. "Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize -- an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride -- unless of course you are the Republican Party. The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It's no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore - it's an embarrassing label to claim."

Deep deep blue Democrat here. I have never missed an election and I have voted for one Republican one time ,and I do regret it ( and he did end up in jail....). BUT, I will say that my party lags WAY behind the GOP in its ability to except VICTORY. We won every election there was to win last go round. We hold a filibuster proof majority in the Senate and a whopping majority in the House. The Speaker of the House is from so blue its purple San Francisco, and well, the Senate Leader is a Mormon... we are a big tent! BUT, we can not get our acts together and pull off the victories that our party promises.I think it is good thing that we are not so lock step as the GOP, that the Democratic Party is both Heath Shuler and Maxine Waters, I just wish that we could act as Democrats and not be so so concerned with what others think, just once in a while.

In the last few days or so I have been called the P.C. Police and close minded. I so wish I was. For what ever self loathing reason I do , with some regularity watch Bill and Sean and have even tried to sit through an entire Glenn ( just like The Real Housewives, I could not do it..) . I read Michelle Malkin for crying out loud. I know the other sides argument and just disagree ( ok, am blown away by their ignorance and full blown hate, but for the sake of good argument, lets go with disagree..) Can we not as a grown up nation claim that NOT having to chose between your family's house and your child's chemotherapy is a good thing? Can we not agree that a world with less nuclear weapons rolling around the globe is a good thing? Can we not agree that talking with other nations rather than sending in troops to possibly die is a good thing? Yes, keeping more of your hard earned dollars is a good thing as well, I understand that. But , the cost of almost a decade of war would have insured the country for a long , long time.....

Sure, maybe the President did not win this award for actions he has taken. The chattering class is going off now because he was nominated for the award just a couple of weeks into his presidency. So, its not for a specific action, but for the word he chose to use. HOPE. As strong a word and concept as humans have. Barack Obama understands this, as did Bill Clinton ( I still believe in a place called Hope..) Maybe this concept is just too much for the granite heads that litter the right and far right.

good news!

I found my camera, ipod and sunglasses, cleaning out the car is a good thing.... now all that is missing is the toaster. ( Sure, someone just walked in and took the ritz crackers.)

SO! today was an almost perfect day here in Mendon, Koda and I took a great four mile walk, with swimming and photos, BUT, I had not found my camera yet. Ya'll missed it. I know, I know, a day with out a Koda swimming video.

Here are a few photos from the devastating loss that was this past Saturday:

The dogs O line game Pookie hysterical blindness
mmmmm, chicken wings